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Personal profile
Research interests
- Complex systems
- Communicable and non-communicable disease prevention
- Environment and sustainability
- Climate change and health
- Obesity and healthy weight
- Urbanisation, transport, and health
- Physical activity
- Structural drivers of health and illness
- Public health evidence and policy
Other responsibilities
- Attendee of UK Government Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE COVID) 2020-22
- Co-chair of SAGE Environment and Modelling Group 2020-22
- Chair, Welsh Government Healthy Weight Healthy Wales Strategic Overview Group
- Co-Chair, Lancet Commission on improving population health post COVID-19
- Lead working group on structural drivers of liver disease in EASL Lancet Commission on liver disease in Europe
- Chair, External Expert Advisory Board, EU Joint Action on Cancer and Non-Communicable Diseases
- Member, Scientific Advisory Board, YAHEE (Young Adults in Health-enhancing Equitable Environments) project, 2024-27
- Chair, Faculty of Public Health Academic and Research Committee 2023-2025
- Board member, Faculty of Public Health, 2023-2025
- Member, Welsh Government Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales National Implementation Board 2022-24
- Member, Medical Research Council Public Health Intervention Development panel (PHIND) 2024-
- Member, Public Health Scotland Evaluation Advisory Group on alcohol minimum unit pricing 2021-2023
- Member, NIHR Research Support Service Specialist Centre for Public Health Advisory Board, 2023-
- Member, NHS Net Zero expert panel 2020
- National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research Programme Prioritisation Committee 2015-2022
- Member, Strategic Council for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Obesity 2020-
- Wellcome Trust mental health programme expert adviser, 2020-
- Member, World Obesity Federation Policy and Prevention Committee 2020-
- Royal Society of Medicine Epidemiology and Public Health Council member 2020-
- Academy of Medical Sciences international expert panel on systems thinking and health 2020
- Study Steering Committee, NIHR project 129406 on The air quality health and economic costs and benefits of a zero carbon UK, 2020-2023
- Advisory group, UKPRP Population Health Agent-based Simulation Network, 2020-2024
- Member, Scientific Advisory Board, UKPRP SIPHER Consortium, 2019-2024
- Member, DHSC / PHE / LGA Childhood Obesity Trailblazer Programme Steering Group 2019-
- Member, Science Advisory Council, Department of Culture, Media and Sport 2015-
- Chair - scientific advisory board for the Irish Health Review Board Centre for Health and Diet Research 2010-2020
- WHO Europe Health Economic Assessment Tool for walking and cycling steering group 2000-
- WHO Europe Child Obesity Surveillance Initiative steering group 2008-
- WHO Europe Environmental Health Economics Network steering group 2012-
- Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust Evaluation Advisory Group, 2018-
- Expert Adviser, NHS England Healthy New Towns programme, 2018-2020
- Public Health England Revalidation Steering Group 2017-
- Board member, Faculty of Public Health, April 2016-2019
- Expert advisory committee, The Food Foundation, 2015-
- Editorial board, Journal of Transport and Health 2015-2020
- Department of Health Expert Advisory Group on obesity (to 2011)
- Project management team for Foresight obesity project 2006-7
- Chair - NICE Programme Delivery Group on guidance on walking and cycling
- NICE Programme Delivery Group Obesity: working with local communities
- External examiner, MSc Health Policy, City University, 2012-2017
- Trustee, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare 2012-2020
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Postgraduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Oxford
Award Date: 5 Dec 2008
Public Health, Master of Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Award Date: 17 Feb 2001
Medical Sciences Tripos, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Cambridge
Award Date: 16 Dec 1991
External positions
Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Agder University
Mar 2018 → …
Senior strategic adviser, Public Health England
Feb 2012 → Apr 2022
Adunct Professor of Public Health, University College Cork
Feb 2011 → Dec 2020
Keywords
- RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
- Complex systems
- Obesity
- Physical activity
- Sustainability
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Health Hub: Systems Approaches to Commercial Determinants of Health and Equity
Gilmore, A. (PI), Fichera, E. (CoI), Gillison, F. (CoI), Griffin, T. (CoI), Hunt, A. (CoI), Pearce, N. (CoI), Rutter, H. (CoI), Bates, G. (Researcher CoI), Serna Castano, A. (Researcher CoI) & Van Den Akker, A. (Researcher CoI)
1/04/24 → 31/03/28
Project: Research council
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Co-design of a sustainable and acceptable implementation intervention to maximise the impact of whole school approaches to food within primary schools
Rutter, H. (PI)
1/01/21 → 30/06/22
Project: Research council
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NIHR evidence review
Rutter, H. (PI)
National Institute for Health Research
1/07/20 → 28/02/22
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
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The Lancet Commission on improving population health post-COVID-19
Rutter, H., Wabnitz, K., Nambiar, D., Garde, A., Benton, T. G., Heymann, D. L., Yates, R., Friel, S., Hollands, G. J., Cai, W., Chater, N., Bloom, D. E., Guinto, R. R., El Omrani, O., Wilsdon, J., Amuasi, J. H., Butler, C., Tlou, S. & Marteau, T. M., 17 Jan 2026, In: The Lancet . 407, 10525, p. 367-308Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A critical interrogation of the legitimacy of commercial actors in food policy partnerships
Knai, C., Chavez-Ugalde, Y., Eastmure, E., Egan, M., Rutter, H., Blanchard, L. & Petticrew, M., 7 Oct 2025, In: Health Promotion International. 40, 5, daaf171.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Changes in household purchasing of soft drinks following the UK soft drinks industry levy by household income and composition: controlled interrupted time series analysis, March 2014 to November 2019
Rogers, N. T., Cummins, S., Pell, D., Rutter, H., Sharp, S. J., Smith, R. D., White, M. & Adams, J., 1 Jun 2025, In: BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health. 8, 1, p. 217-228 12 p., e000981.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Co-design of a systems wide approach (CONNECTS-Food) to promote adoption of whole-school approaches to food
Burton, W., O’Kane, N., Woodside, J. V., Evans, C. E. L., Rutter, H., Spence, S., Ahern, S., Sharif, A. M., Baker, T. & Bryant, M., 17 Oct 2025, (Acceptance date) In: Public Health Nutrition. p. 1-35Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Converging perspectives on the processes exacerbating adolescent obesity: An integrative systems approach
Aguiar, A., Rajah, J. K., Conway-Moore, K., Savona, N., Knai, C., Vlad, I., Samdal, O., Rutter, H., Lien, N. & Kopainsky, B., 3 Feb 2025, In: Social Science & Medicine. 367, 117706.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (SciVal)
Activities
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Chair, External Expert Advisory Board, EU Joint Action on Prevention of Cancer and Non-Communicable Diseases
Rutter, H. (Chair)
1 Jan 2024 → 31 Dec 2027Activity: Knowledge Exchange (Industry, Government, NGOs) › Advisory board membership
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Healthy Weight, Healthy Wales National Implementation Board
Rutter, H. (Advisor)
2022 → 2024Activity: Knowledge Exchange (Industry, Government, NGOs) › Advisory board membership
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Lancet Commission on Population Health Post-Covid-19 (External organisation)
Rutter, H. (No value)
Feb 2020 → Jan 2026Activity: Other contribution to the discipline › Role on a committee, board or panel
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Folkehelsekonferansen 2025
Rutter, H. (Speaker)
16 Oct 2025 → 17 Oct 2025Activity: Academic conferences and events (excluding conference publications) › Keynote presentation or prestigious invited talk
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7th Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Water and Health
Rutter, H. (Speaker)
5 Nov 2025 → 7 Nov 2025Activity: Academic conferences and events (excluding conference publications) › Keynote presentation or prestigious invited talk